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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Anisotropic nonlinear elastic properties of an icosahedral quasicrystal
1LMDH, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS (UMR 7603), Boite 86, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
We show that the nonlinear behavior of transverse acoustic waves can reveal the anisotropic structure of an icosahedral quasicrystal, at the macroscopic level. We report experiments performed in i-Al-Pd-Mn. We observe that a primary transverse acoustic wave can generate a second harmonic transverse acoustic wave. We also observe a specific relation between the polarization directions of those waves. These observations are manifestations on a macroscopic scale of the long-range order in quasicrystals.
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